How is SW:ToR doing?

[Vlisa]

Thank you for your answers, may I ask that a Moderator lock this post as I've gotten answers to the questions I was asking. If not, please don't bump this thread any further.

Thanks again everyone!

[Decan]

I found that the story lines are more then worth the cost for the game and the monthly fee until you finish them, every story line is different.
I myself have stopped playing wow to play it. I;ve played wow for 7yrs and this is the first game to pull me away from it. Since getting swtor i;ve played wow for maybe 1 hour in the last month and a half.

As it is now, it's still taxing on you system. The fleet zone is still a little laggy and needs so teaks but everywhere else runs well for my system. Just make sure you have Directx 9c installed on your computer when playing it.

[Araatan]

I am thoroughly enjoying the game so far. The story lines are awesome, and the feeling of a new mmo is overwhelming. When you think you have seen everything, something new arises. If you think that you might enjoy the game, I'd suggest buying it.

[Quenden]

I love the game - it has solid PVP, PVE, and great communities for RP.

[Alvito]

I love the game - it has solid PVP, PVE, and great communities for RP.

Once somebody says it has solid pvp that cant be taken seriously.

If you look at SWTOR as KOTOR 3 with an mmo twist its great. Like any new online game there are handful of bugs and balance issues for the end game and some other interactive content.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

If you hate games with bugs and that "new game smell" (not the fresh out of the box, but fresh out of the company), then keep playing WoW until ToR hits 2.0

If you can tolerate bugs and want to be part of a great, albeit unpolished, new game, dive on in.

[Deleted]

I love the game - it has solid PVP, PVE, and great communities for RP.

Oh ya I enjoy standing in Ilum spamming my group buff and watching xx/150 tick, so exciting!

[Glorious Leader]

Once somebody says it has solid pvp that cant be taken seriously.

If you look at SWTOR as KOTOR 3 with an mmo twist its great. Like any new online game there are handful of bugs and balance issues for the end game and some other interactive content.

Right. You like something so your opinion is invalid. To bad for you thats not how it works. I thoroughly enjoy SWTOR pvp and would call it solid as well.

[Windry]

- It launched with a lot of bugs, but there aren't very many now.
- The leveling story really depends on your class. I thought the Inquisitor story was a piece of garbage, but I loved the Sith Warrior and Operative stories. If you're looking to play republic, I hear that Consular story is bad, but the Jedi knight story is decent.

- I personally like the PvP a lot more than WoW. While some people hate it, the amount of pushbacks forces you to play with more situational awareness and care in positioning. After about 500+ games, I still find their warzones enjoyable.

- Servers: like any MMO, it sucks to be on a low pop deserted server. SWTOR also has this problem. I recommend rolling on a high population server.

- Community: there's a ton of negativity and trollling in the forums, 2 new ones came up in this very thread as I was writing this post, surprise...but I think it's something with the current culture and times, not really a game specific thing. People are super negative about SWTOR. People are super negative about WoW. People will give you a review on how terrible a game is when they themselves have never even played it...

- Endgame: The game launched with 6 raid bosses. There are currently 10 raid bosses with 3 levels of difficulty for 8 man and 16 man raids. The next tier is supposed to be released in March I believe? I give BW a big +1 to the speed at which they are currently releasing content. WoW goes 6 months to release 7 bosses, and then another 6 months for 8 bosses.
Now granted, the raid bosses are not as good as the encounters in T11 or 12 (I hate DS if you couldn't tell).

I can't help you with your Mac question. Everyone I know swears by PC. I'm sure SWTOR can run on a Mac. Will it have more bugs? I don't know.

[Deleted]

QFT. PvP is aweful. If you are looking at this game as a PvPer, dont even mind playing it.

When you are looking at this game as an earlier hardcore raider in others games...dont even look at this game.

When you are looking at this game as an RPer....just try it, can be fine.

But time runs...the activity on most of the servers is going down. There are some High Pop Server, where the game experience can be damaged due massive lags (as the great servers ae not great servers) and the game is the MMO with the most bugs since beginning...you can not say this stupid "every other MMO had massive bugs, too"...because the bugs in this game are massive. And when some bugs are claned new bugs appear.

Oh I enjoy roleplaying a Sith Lord. Bashing apprentices? Check. Bashing imperials? Check. Humiliating chubby Darths after duel? Check.

As for PvP #2 - stun, knockback, stun, root, back at respawn point with white resolve bar shrinking. Not to mention that when you get two turrets in Alderaan, no way Republic's getting them back. Same if Rep gets two first. Planting bombs in Voidstar? All my games with better groups end up 0-0 and it's just who had more medals/objectives/whatever wins. Medals are seriously flawed by favoring some classes or specs over the others. Objective points? So a tank carries the ball with two healers, yeah some noobs go after the tank, get objective points and MVP votes while I slaughter healers just to have a chance to down that tank I get zero MVPs, zero medals for objectives. At Voidstar ranged classes stay at the doors and dps and get objectives, as a melee I have to go further from doors to dps and I don't get objective poitns and medals. How the hell people are enjoying PvP is beyond me. Tatooine PvP area - only during RP events, other times it's dead. Ilum - 2012 MMO failure #1 (until Tera gets released).

[Glorious Leader]

QFT. PvP is aweful. If you are looking at this game as a PvPer, dont even mind playing it.

When you are looking at this game as an earlier hardcore raider in others games...dont even look at this game.

When you are looking at this game as an RPer....just try it, can be fine.

But time runs...the activity on most of the servers is going down. There are some High Pop Server, where the game experience can be damaged due massive lags (as the great servers ae not great servers) and the game is the MMO with the most bugs since beginning...you can not say this stupid "every other MMO had massive bugs, too"...because the bugs in this game are massive. And when some bugs are claned new bugs appear.

I play on a high pop server have not experienced "massive lags" nobody in my guild has. The games bugs are NOT massive. You sir are a troll.

You can not call another forum member a troll. If you suspect they are report the post and move on. - Cula

[Deleted]

if you like the idea of story and immersion in sci-fi / star wars universe, its great. If you just want to pvp or grind dungeons you may be disappointed. Its early days though, I'm sure endgame will improve. Its not really buggy, but some will creep up. Also the ui is pretty horrible, and healing needs a ton of work. If you want things to be polished you may want to wait a bit longer, but I would say the good far outweighs the bad.

[HisaeDalv]

SWTOR is full of bug/pvp exploit its not even funny whoever said it doesnt have many bug now obviously doesnt play the game.
also this :PvP #2 - stun, knockback, stun, root, back at respawn point with white resolve bar shrinking. "

[Deleted]

I play on a high pop server have not experienced "massive lags" nobody in my guild has. The games bugs are NOT massive. You sir are a troll.

Right now - semi massive. Every second day or so I have to kill swtor.exe process (like being stuck when landing on a planet - my ship lands, my camera hovers over the planet, ESC doesn't bring up the menu, happens when a warzone queue window pops up mostly) and then tick/untick all the settings again.

If you're playing 30 minutes a day, ofcourse you barely encounter any bugs. Atm I'm nolifing because I'm home sick and bugs are frustrating.

[Bayhas]

It's fun, give it a go. With everyone's gripes in these forums it's all going to boil down to you. As someone stated, the storylines alone are worth the price of admission and if it's not your thing, don't worry there is a lot on the horizon and it'll get smoother as the ride goes on.

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Right now - semi massive. Every second day or so I have to kill swtor.exe process (like being stuck when landing on a planet - my ship lands, my camera hovers over the planet, ESC doesn't bring up the menu, happens when a warzone queue window pops up mostly) and then tick/untick all the settings again.

If you're playing 30 minutes a day, ofcourse you barely encounter any bugs. Atm I'm nolifing because I'm home sick and bugs are frustrating.

Never had this happen and I was able to have a day to myself without work or wife & kids and ran a Jedi Knight from 1 to 27... no issues.

[Deleted]

It's fun, give it a go. With everyone's gripes in these forums it's all going to boil down to you. As someone stated, the storylines alone are worth the price of admission and if it's not your thing, don't worry there is a lot on the horizon and it'll get smoother as the ride goes on.

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Never had this happen and I was able to have a day to myself without work or wife & kids and ran a Jedi Knight from 1 to 27... no issues.

I bet you haven't leveled 1 to 27 by doing warzones and how many times you traveled from planet to planet while leveling? Try constantly queueing for warzones and gathering datacrons and changing planets like socks when someone in /g says "rp event in alderaan's cantina or rp event in nar shaddaa's bay" then talk. If you haven't encountered bugs doesn't mean there aren't any for other people.

[Ezekiah]

I haven't encountered a lot of the bugs people are talking about here. The game is in a very playable, and even smooth, state. In fact I had more issues with bugs in WoW's leveling process in Cata than I did leveling my second character on SW:ToR. They fixed just about everything I encountered the first time around already.

That said, the end game is where the problem is. I've completed everything on nightmare mode, and this stuff is Naxx 2.0 easy. On nightmare mode(the heroic equivalent.) Unless they do something to increase the difficulty of the raids drastically, there is no way I'd stay subbed myself.

That said, you may not be the type who thought Naxx 2.0 was a bad thing and might enjoy it. Certainly I did enjoy the leveling process until the 30's and 40's when it became a bit of a grind, but at that point it should be, since you're getting close, yea?

[Glorious Leader]

Right now - semi massive. Every second day or so I have to kill swtor.exe process (like being stuck when landing on a planet - my ship lands, my camera hovers over the planet, ESC doesn't bring up the menu, happens when a warzone queue window pops up mostly) and then tick/untick all the settings again.

If you're playing 30 minutes a day, ofcourse you barely encounter any bugs. Atm I'm nolifing because I'm home sick and bugs are frustrating.

Played 6 hours today. Mixed warzones, fps, and questing. In fact in over 200 hours of questing including beta I have not had the client crash once. Massive bugs indeed.

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I bet you haven't leveled 1 to 27 by doing warzones and how many times you traveled from planet to planet while leveling? Try constantly queueing for warzones and gathering datacrons and changing planets like socks when someone in /g says "rp event in alderaan's cantina or rp event in nar shaddaa's bay" then talk. If you haven't encountered bugs doesn't mean there aren't any for other people.

Done that. Did that for most of the day actually. Ill turn that around on you. Just because YOU encountered a bug does not make it game breaking, prevalant or applicable to all. But of course that requires we apply the same logic that we do to others to ourselves.

[Deleted]

So I guess - for basic PvP/PvE needs/roleplaying/story - worth buying.
For getting hardcore - wait for 2.0 Even a huge cynic like me has faith in 2.0.

Played 6 hours today. Mixed warzones, fps, and questing. In fact in over 200 hours of questing including beta I have not had the client crash once. Massive bugs indeed.

Game never crashed on me either. Altho it had for many people in my parties, I blame their computers.

Still as I were saying - game gets stuck and you need to end swtor.exe process. How about off gcd skills activating gcd? Not a fu***** major bug? How many times I died because Berserk activated gcd and couldn't use Obsfucate (-90% accuracy) on that Smuggler... If it wouldn't activated, I would use Obsfucate - no damage for 5 seconds and a 18% heal while damaging them. Me dying isn't a major bug? Who's the troll now? And no I don't accidently activate a skill with right clicking on enemy - I'm always tracking my rage and abilities either spend rage or give rage. GCD is there but my rage hasn't changed.
Or using Cloak of Annihilation - bam activates GCD, can't put up slow, me getting kited. gg

[KCguy]

It's a breath of fresh air and it will be fun when you start leveling, but trust me the novelty will wear off and eventually you'll see the game for what it is. A glitchy, buggy game that is okay short term, but will crash and burn long term. Fact.